2020 Dodge Viper V-10 Engine Review & Changes

2020 Dodge Viper V-10 Engine Review & Changes – Is Dodge’s halo sports car set for a return? That’s the word from Car and Driver, which reported on the Viper’s rebirth with new speculative facts. Recall, the Dodge Viper ended production on August 31 last year at the Connor Avenue assembly plant. The Viper was truly the only American sports car built in Detroit. However, C&D’s report claims Dodge’s snake is alive and effectively inside the halls of Fiat-Chrysler Automobiles, and the next Viper will reportedly put the mid-engine Chevrolet C8 Corvette and Ford GT in its sights. That seems like an odd pairing because the two cars need to be priced hundreds of thousands of dollars apart.

2020 Dodge Viper V-10 Redesign

Motor Authority reached out to Dodge for comment on the Viper’s future and we were told that Dodge can’t comment on future product speculation. Facts are slim, but together with the potential return of an icon, Dodge may also have plans to re-introduce the sports car sans V-10 engine. The Viper exclusively featured V-10 power its entire life and the final variant of the engine displaced 8.4 liters and produced 645 horsepower. FCA is, instead, reportedly engineering a new V-8 engine to power the reborn Viper.

2020 Dodge Viper V-10

Rumors have floated across the 5thGenRam forum that a new Banshee 7.0-liter V-8 engineand a supercharged 6.2-liter V-8 engine are currently in development for two individual Ram Rebel variants. It’s possible possibly of these speculative mills could also find their way to a new Viper. On an individual note, such a move would actually honor the Viper V-10 legacy as the original 8.0-liter V-10 engine came from a cast-iron block V-10, which was designed for trucks.

2020 Dodge Viper V-10 Specs

C&D extra that Dodge will probably present multiple performance stages. Specifically, 550 horsepower and 700 horsepower-plus variants were mentioned. If Dodge does have a new slithering snake in the works, the car could show face as soon as January 2019 at the Detroit auto show.